Useful Books

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1. General Linux

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  • "Linux in a Nutshell" by Ellen Siever, Jessica P. Hackman, Stephen Spainhour, Stephen Figgins, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 0596000251

  • "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Lar Kaufman, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 156592469X

  • "Linux Unleashed" by Tim Parker, Bill Ball, David Pitts, Sams, ISBN 0672316889

  • "When You Can't Find Your System Administrator" by Linda Mui, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565921046

  • When you actually buy a distribution, it will contain a very decent user manual.

2. Editors

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  • "Learning the Vi Editor" by Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565924266

  • "GNU Emacs Manual" by Richard M.Stallman, iUniverse.Com Inc., ISBN 0595100333

  • "Learning GNU Emacs" by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt and Eric Raymond, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565921526

  • "Perl Cookbook" by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565922433

3. Shells

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  • "Unix Shell Programming" by Stephen G.Kochan and Patrick H.Wood, Sams Publishing, ISBN 067248448X

  • "Learning the Bash Shell" by Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565923472

  • "The Complete Linux Shell Programming Training Course" by Ellie Quigley and Scott Hawkins, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0130406767

  • "Linux and Unix Shell Programming" by David Tansley, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0201674726

  • "Unix C Shell Field Guide" by Gail and Paul Anderson, Prentice Hall, ISBN 013937468X

4. X Window

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  • "Gnome User's Guide" by the Gnome Community, iUniverse.Com Inc., ISBN 0595132251

  • "KDE Bible" by Dave Nash, Hungry Minds Inc., ISBN 0764546929

  • "The Concise Guide to XFree86 for Linux" by Aron HSiao, Que, ISBN 0789721821

  • "The New XFree86" by Bill Ball, Prima Publishing, ISBN 0761531521

  • "Beginning GTK+ and Gnome" by Peter Wright, Wrox Press, ISBN 1861003811

  • "KDE 2.0 Development" by David Sweet and Matthias Ettrich, Sams Publishing, ISBN 0672318911

  • "GTK+/Gnome Application Development" by Havoc Pennington, New Riders Publishing, ISBN 0735700788

5. Networking

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  • "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume I: The Protocols" by W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, ISBN 0-201-63346-9

  • "DNS and BIND" by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu, Mike Loukides and Deborah Russell, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 0596001584

  • "The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND" by Nicolai Langfeldt, Que, ISBN 0789722739

  • "Implementing LDAP" by Mark Wilcox, Wrox Press, ISBN 1861002211

  • "Understanding and deploying LDAP directory services" by Tim Howes and co., Sams, ISBN 0672323168

  • "Sendmail" by Brian Costales and Eric Allman, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565922220

  • "Removing the Spam : Email Processing and Filtering" by Geoff Mulligan, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0201379570

  • "Managing IMAP" by Dianna & Kevin Mullet, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 059600012X

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